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HAPPY mid-autumn fall festival!

First of all, HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FALL FESTIVAL! This is the time of year when China stops working to eat lots and lots of moon cakes!!! For three days, families come together to celebrate the mid-harvest moon (the official start of Fall), while farmers celebrate the end of their summer harvest.  Moon cakes, or Yuè bǐng, […]

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Thanksgiving in September

It was my friend Viki’s birthday on Friday, so we celebrated by having dinner at a Serbian restaurant called The Kiosk. (photo source) Housed in this adorable two-story pink building, this hidden treasure was the perfect place to spend an evening with some of my new Hungarian, American, Serbian and Chinese friends.  The inside décor […]